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one." "A school is just what Ave have not and what we want.'' 

 This led the speaker to refer to the School of Anthropology estab- 

 lished by the late Professor Broca in Paris, and to the success wliich 

 had attended the labours of that remarkable man. After a brilliant 

 career as a medical student and officer of the State Hospitals, in the 

 course of which he had published many valuable original memoirs, 

 he founded the Society of Anthropology in 1859, of which he 

 continued to be the central figure during the remainder of his life. 

 Not content with this, he devoted his untiring energies to the 

 establishment, in connection with the Society, of a School, a 

 Laboratory, and a Museum, constituting together the Anthropological 

 Institute in France. His services to science had the unique recog- 

 nition of his election as a Senator of France, and in that capacity 

 would doubtless have been followed by services to the State as 

 memorable as that in which he saved the funds of the Hospitals 

 from the cupidity of the Communard Government, had life been 

 spared to him. The museum he founded has aptly been named the 

 "Musee Broca." 



The speaker proceeded to note some respects in which real 

 anthropological work is even now being done in England ; and 

 specified that undertaken by the Anthropometric Committee of the 

 British Association as satisfactory so far as it has gone, and giving 

 promise of good results in the future. 



TUESDAY, MARCH 7th. 

 A lecture on " Communicable Diseases," was delivered by 

 Dr. Armstrong, F.R. S., Sec. C. S., Vice-President of the 

 Association. 



